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“People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.”

People Mean Milk Imperfect Spoil

Author:Veronica Rossi

“The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.”

Way Facts Stories Best Way Spoil Good Story

Author:Evan Esar

“A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.”

Humans May Desire Race Eternal Philosopher Rational Vanity Human Race Conquest Spoil Discord Provocation

Book:The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.”

People Want Giving Trying Years I Can Play Desire Games Records Environment Hero Lucky Available Decent Reasonable Spoil Delivering Good Years

Author:Warren Buffett

“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.”

World Should Ends Romance Oneself Sentiments Sense Of Humor Deceiving Spoil Settlement Deceiving Others

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.”

Consciousness Habit Conscious Connections Performances Arise Phases Interfere Spoil Formation New Habits

Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

“One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.”

Habit Dozen Spoil Bad Habits

Book:Succeed and grow rich through persuasion

Source: Succeed and grow rich through persuasion

“Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.”

Book Self Reader Conscious Suits Display Spoil Self Conscious Joyce

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.”

Knows Way Want Play Might Spirit Too Much Needed Thinker Spoil Dave Holland Deep Thinker

Author:Miles Davis

“I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.”

People Ifs Years Play Three Games Careers Seven Seven Years Spoil Bad Games

Author:LeBron James

“Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.”

World Feelings Enemy Knowing Observation Luxury Spoil Indulgence Good Feeling

Book:The Lower River

Source: The Lower River

“The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.”

Heart May Mother Turns Given Love Is Kindness Spoil Indulgence Mother's Love

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.”

Suffering Karma Our Future Your Future Spoil

Author:Radhanath Swami

“If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.”

Ifs Giving Spoil Good Humor

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.”

May Seems Easy Difficult Clear Spring Bottom Dust Pool Joyful Transparent Spoil Muddy Specks

Author:Wanda Landowska

“Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.”

Surprise Shakes Spoil

Author:Taryn Manning

“It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."”

“I feel like you have to go looking for spoilers. I'm not on social media, so I will watch a show that was on ten years ago, and clearly I could find out every single piece of information about that show, but I'm not trying to spoil myself. You definitely participate in your own spoiling.”

Feels Trying Years Shows Social Watches Pieces Media Information Like You Ten Years Ago Social Media Spoil Spoilers

Author:Deborah Ann Woll

“I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.”

Energy Left Grandmother Grandparent Spoil Grandma Correcting Grandpa Children And Grandchildren My Grandchildren Grandkids Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren Funny Grandparent Grandmother And Grandchildren Funny Grandmother Grandmas And Moms Being A Grandma

Book:Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

Source: Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First

“Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that comes naturally with parenthood.”

Want Kids Parent Enjoy Parenthood Spoil

Author:Curtis Joseph

“What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.”

War Wealth Sea Mines Pure Jewels Spoil Afar Shrines

Book:Records of Woman, with Other Poems

Source: Records of Woman, with Other Poems

“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.”

Way Years Matter Light Film Black Term Break Week Paper Lows Ordinary Hundred Cameras Complicated One Way Breaking Down Simplest Exposure Spoil Exposing

Author:Jonathon Keats

“Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.”

World Feels Moments Particular Late Weight Tables Germany Division Colonialism Spoil Moments In Time True Strength

Author:Gerald Horne

“Then to the victor go the spoils. You rise up by lifting, you know, each other up. You win. And so isn't this the time to be magnanimous like Donald Trump is and not to be, you know, predicting or projecting on to the press how they must cover him. They're going to cover him how they see fit.”

Knows Winning Trump Fit Presses Be You Spoil Lifting Predicting Magnanimous

Author:Megyn Kelly

“We were looking at weather and our relationships with weather. It goes to a few other places, and I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't go into it, but it's about a willingness to expose oneself a little bit more and share something openly and honestly. It's more than just landing tricks. Moving forward, this is just another stepping stone.”

Want Littles Moving Bits Share Little Bit Stones Oneself Honestly Tricks Weather Moving Forward Willingness Our Relationship Spoil Landing Stepping Stones

Author:Travis Rice

“For me, I was born in the Bronx, and I moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia at a very young age. I had the luxury of going back to New York, visiting my grandmother who would spoil me endlessly, and I could buy whatever was the hot kicks in the summertime of 1990. Being able to shop and then going back to Virginia Beach, where they weren't as fast in regards to fashion, I had that luxury.”

Age Able Young Born Fashion New York Hot Regard Moved Luxury Beach Kicks Shops Grandmother My Grandmother Young Age Spoil Visiting Virginia Summertime Bronx

Author:Pusha T

“Isaiah the prophet, Isaiah's second son was - his symbolic name was Mahershalalhashbaz. And Isaiah was - the Prophet Isaiah was instructed to write the name in all capital letters as a prophecy. And it means hasten to the spoils, speedy as the prey.”

Writing Mean Names Son Letters Prophet Prophecy Prey Spoil Symbolic

Author:Mahershala Ali

“I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.”

Criticism Spoil

Author:David LaChapelle

“We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and an unconcerned attitude to weary notions of good and bad is what's making us exceed speed limits. We're hijacking the holy inspiration from otherness, and we don't spoil it with personal aesthetic preferences. We are panthers and gazelles, not slugs and tortoises. Though it must be said that after turning forty I've started to resemble a sloth more and more.”

Inspiration Attitude Holy Musician Passionate Speed Forty Aesthetic Good And Bad Fear Of Death Spoil Impatience Energetic Sloth

Author:Jussi Lehtisalo

“I don't think meeting people that I've done pictures of spoils it at all because I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they're complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better - to know that they can rise above that and make something great.”

People Thinking Done Meetings Complicated Shy Spoil Rise Above

Author:Elizabeth Peyton

“I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words, but I like to see everything spread out because I get a sense of scale that is missing from screen. Going over each sentence many, many, many times gives me incredible intimacy with sentences, especially their rhythm. The rhythm and music of words matter a lot to me and it only takes one misplaced word to spoil the music.”

Giving Missing Sick Incredibles Spread Rhythm Intimacy Spoil

Author:Myriam Gurba

“Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Success Successful Positive Congratulations Spoil Insufferable

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.”

People Inspirational Kind Ideas Self Success Common Failure Humble Contrary Vain Congratulations Spoil Success And Failure Be Humble Complacent Success Failure Summing Up

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?”

Ifs Rain Farmers Spoil Crops Picnics Inspirational Rain

Author:Tom Barrett

“There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.”

People Literature Money Making Money Handful Spoil

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.”

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Littles Education One Thing Sarcastic Spoil

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.”

Fun Good Things Charity Spoil

Book:The Sense of Beauty

Source: The Sense of Beauty

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”

“Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”

Humor Literature Intellectual Leaving Wit Salt Native American Spoil Humorists Cookery

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.”

People Ifs Way Love Enough Girl Sleep Love Is Secret Talking Share Love You Lucky Best Way Spoil Pretty Girl Secret Love Girl Love

Author:Rip Torn

“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.”

Dating Girlfriend Hopeless Spoil My Girlfriend Hopeless Romantic

Author:Orlando Bloom

“It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.”

Hard Whole Games Week Stupid Hard Work Silly Preparing Spoil

Author:Arsene Wenger

“It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.”

Ifs Way May Littles Night Sin Stupid Flower Likes Spoil Begging Own Business Mind Your Own Business Your Stupid

Book:The Power of One

Source: The Power of One

“Don't think about what you've left behind. If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”

Ifs Thinking Made Said Matter Moments Light Found Left Stars Behinds Boys Return Pure Desert Sand Left Behind Explosions Spoil Alchemist Alchemist Book

Author:Paulo Coelho

“May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.”

Life Should May Happiness Life Is Values Forget Learning Lessons Enjoyment Life Lesson Forget It Spoil

Book:Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

Source: Richard L. Evans--the man and the message

“[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play! Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO! Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad?”

Ifs Thinking Play Whole Chance Wonder Boys Mom Dad Letting Go Phones Tricks Hey Going Away Chickens Telephones Hello Invited Spoil Catching Contagious Pox

Author:Bill Watterson

“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”

Men Way Notion Spoil

Book:Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations

“Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.”

Want Writing Said I Can Spoil Heroines

Book:Anne of the Island

Source: Anne of the Island

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

Inspirational Desire Memories Education Study Educational Spoil Schooling Schooled Unschooling Inspirational Education Inspirational Educational University Education Studying Art

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks